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Leni Riefenstahl documentary.
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September 3, 2023
Subject: Thank you!
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Great documentary. Wish more would follow a format similar to this.
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August 16, 2021
Subject: Artists and their blindness.
Subject: Artists and their blindness.
I found this film greatly interesting, actually the subject, I should say -- in the fact that the purest of artist is often blind to the subject of their
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interest.
Goya's study of the horrors of Joseph the first and his neutrality during those horrors bares witness to his attempt to objectify and find that terrible beauty that is so intoxicating to an aesthete...
I greatly admire her individualism, it rare today and I don't think in all that she witnessed she was truly sympathetic.
But as the modern photographer who waits and snaps the shot of naked black child in death from famine, and just in frame with the vulture, as he waits patiently for his daily meal...the emotions that stir the voyeur
But being an artist of such quality, with clarity of vision can in one that is far too trusting and far too naive.
Great artists want to make great art and sometimes, great art costs dearly. Even the artist himself/herself must pay in the moment or as in Leni's case other ways later on, and sometimes in that temptation, the cost is not known until years later.
America sent the best in Hollywood and so did Britain to film the carnage if the second world war, its so east to cry foul.
Better to regret a life lived, than to never to have lived at all. To have eased through a mediocre existence.
Leni must say some things for the camera, but if you look close, very close, you will find that she tells the truth in the beginning of the film, when she says "I wanted to see..." and there is seeing with your eyes, and then there is 'seeing'.
As for Muller, he was judging and looking for something pornographic, the title is a bit misleading, he barely achieved objectivity. Without his subject, the film photo-graphical would have been a bore without the work of Leni...this is tough stuff!
Goya's study of the horrors of Joseph the first and his neutrality during those horrors bares witness to his attempt to objectify and find that terrible beauty that is so intoxicating to an aesthete...
I greatly admire her individualism, it rare today and I don't think in all that she witnessed she was truly sympathetic.
But as the modern photographer who waits and snaps the shot of naked black child in death from famine, and just in frame with the vulture, as he waits patiently for his daily meal...the emotions that stir the voyeur
But being an artist of such quality, with clarity of vision can in one that is far too trusting and far too naive.
Great artists want to make great art and sometimes, great art costs dearly. Even the artist himself/herself must pay in the moment or as in Leni's case other ways later on, and sometimes in that temptation, the cost is not known until years later.
America sent the best in Hollywood and so did Britain to film the carnage if the second world war, its so east to cry foul.
Better to regret a life lived, than to never to have lived at all. To have eased through a mediocre existence.
Leni must say some things for the camera, but if you look close, very close, you will find that she tells the truth in the beginning of the film, when she says "I wanted to see..." and there is seeing with your eyes, and then there is 'seeing'.
As for Muller, he was judging and looking for something pornographic, the title is a bit misleading, he barely achieved objectivity. Without his subject, the film photo-graphical would have been a bore without the work of Leni...this is tough stuff!
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BertRes
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July 9, 2021
Subject: Amazing ...
Subject: Amazing ...
... the quality of this bio. And the true blindness she had and continued to have, indeed INSISTED on having (note she avoided the, 'blind,' charge). With
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her supreme talents, she made corruption beautiful. And with it, herself.
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Dublin Historian
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March 4, 2021
Subject: Leni Riefenstahl 101
Subject: Leni Riefenstahl 101
Müller accomplished a magnificent job in this extensive biography. The totality of Leni Riefenstahl's life, in every respect, technical skill, motivations,
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personal views & reflections, contributions from others & all of the controversy addressed with difficult questions are all here. Riefenstahl was a complex, highly talented and accomplished woman. Her life is ultimately defined by the 1930s and her making of films for the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl did answer the questions put to her. Whether people accept her replies or not is up to them. What Müller has done is exceptional and has put on record an in-depth biography which makes fascinating, compulsive & at times uncomfortable viewing.
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